Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already been made, puts the original back in place and grabs the copy. Suddenly . . . but there's no tension, no believability, no sense that Baghdad's streets sound or feel or smell different from those of Paris or Geneva, or that a man and a woman in peril might react in different ways. This sort of frequent-flyer spy story depends on texture, and there's not much offered. Archer, who lacks the talent to get by with less than his best, writes like a man with his mind on an important lunch date...
...room like a campaign kaffeeklatsch, stopping to chat briefly with each of the other leaders before taking his chair. Though he talked tough at times, he set the tone at that first meeting with a sentence that sounded more Japanese than Clintonian: "In hard times we shouldn't react like porcupines. We should open up like sunflowers." He also appealed directly to the Japanese public in a speech at Waseda University. One point: Japanese consumers are hurt by the country's trade restrictions because they pay outrageous prices for imports...
Sure, Saddam Hussein is a very bad man. Buy why did President Clinton wait until two weeks ago to react against "a recent rash of terrorist activity." Perhaps it has something to do with his new sobriquet, the "43 Percent President." Why is popularity so important to a person just beginning a guaranteed four-year term...
...ecosystems and toward regions where inevitable losses of diversity are more "acceptable." An economics that accurately accounted for the costs of destroying species would also help. Most likely, though, a sustainable future will not come from policy wonks, but rather from a broad change in values as ordinary people react to ecological disasters around them...
...Once implanted in a toddler's mind, teachers and psychologists say, such misconceptions can blossom into a full-blown racial identity crisis during adolescence, affecting everything from performance in the classroom to a youngster's susceptibility to crime and drug abuse. But they can be neutralized if parents react properly...